This is a pedagogical movement with over 1000 Steiner or Waldorf schools ( the latter name stems from the first such school, founded in Stuttgart in 1919 ) located in some 60 countries ; the great majority of these are independent ( private ) schools.

The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.

The Kosovo declaration of independence is supported by the majority of EU member states, but disputed by Serbia, which continues to regard Kosovo as its own territory, and most other countries.

The knowledge of this order to national level, is that to be expected in countries with limited economic means with the vast majority of species indeterminate or even poorly determined.

As such, Canadian English and American English are sometimes classified together as North American English, emphasizing the fact that the vast majority of outsiders even from English speaking countries ( and even Canadians and Americans themselves ), cannot distinguish Canadian English from American English by sound.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

In its most broad term, it refers to the world's Christian majority countries, which, share little in common aside from the predominance of the faith.

From the 19th century, up to the end of the 20th century, most of Central Asia has been part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, both being Slavic majority countries.

This sequence is common to the vast majority of the world's countries.

The vast majority of people with AIDS have never received antiretroviral drugs, including those in developed countries prior to the licensure of AZT ( zidovudine ) in 1987, and people in developing countries today where very few individuals have access to these medications.

The majority of countries supplement the league system with one or more " cup " competitions organised on a knock-out basis.

In the majority of Arab countries, however, Islamic law has been codified in each country according to its own rules, and is interpreted by the judicial system according to the national jurisprudence.

Thirty three countries, including the United States, China, and Australia, have laws that explicitly regulate franchising, with the majority of all other countries having laws which have a direct or indirect impact on franchising.

Following a process of decolonization in the 20th century the vast majority of the empire became independent ; however, its cultural impact is widespread and deep in many countries of the present day.

In April 2010 United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates claimed that the Hezbollah has far more missiles and rockets than the majority of countries.

Iraq and Sudan are connected by remote cultural similarities such as language ( both countries speak Arabic, though the two are different in dialect ) and religion, both are Muslim ( however Sudan is predominantly Sunni, while the majority of Iraq is Shia ).

The Arab countries ( all of which had opposed the plan ) proposed to query the International Court of Justice on the competence of the General Assembly to partition a country against the wishes of the majority of its inhabitants, but were again defeated.

Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino and is spoken fluently by the majority of the countries ' populations.

Some Muslim majority countries have held public gay events, as in Turkey or Azerbaijan.

By 1990 Japan's interaction with the vast majority of Asia-Pacific countries, especially its burgeoning economic exchanges, was multifaceted and increasingly important to the recipient countries.

The majority of aircraft power their avionics using 14-or 28 ‑ volt DC electrical systems ; however, larger, more sophisticated aircraft ( such as airliners or military combat aircraft ) have AC systems operating at 400 Hz, 115 volts AC.

The cost was high, however, as the government was required by the king to call two general elections in 1910 to validate its position and ended up frittering away most of its large majority, being left once again dependent on the Irish Nationalists.

Soon, however, the terminology changed to " Bolsheviks " and " Mensheviks ", from the Russian " bolshinstvo " ( majority ) and " menshinstvo " ( minority ), based on the fact that Lenin believed that most of the party stood behind him.

The majority, however, died early in their imprisonment due to exposure or sickness brought on by conditions in the surrounded army before the surrender.

This, however led to a stalemate in 2006 elections where both the left and the right each gained exactly 100 seats ; as many commenters point out, the earlier system would have given the right 3 – 4 seats majority.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

The majority of such attempts, however, except in a general manner, end in futility since " affinities " lie at the basis of all magic, thereby pre-dating science.

They do, however: participate in other ecclesial and inter-ecclesial committees ; participate in discussions ; teach children in Sunday Schools as well as at home, teach other women and non-members ; perform music ; discuss and vote on business matters ; and engage in the majority of other activities.

This is not a Federal state however, simply a decentralized one, as the majority of the domains of power are still vested in the Central government.

Originally lesbians formed the majority of the movement, however modern Dianic groups may be all-lesbian, all-heterosexual or mixed.

Size was not enough, however: the group did not have a majority.

The risk of the tendency to have seizures is lifelong ; however, the majority have well-controlled seizures with anticonvulsant medication and avoidance of seizure precipitants.

A majority of critics, however, regard comparable films made outside the classic era to be something other than genuine film noirs.

Plurality voting is also variously referred to as winner-takes-all or relative / simple majority voting ; however, these terms can also refer to elections for multiple winners in a particular constituency using bloc voting.

Generally, however, the vast majority of stock used today is " normal " ( visible spectrum ) color, although " normal " black and white also commands a significant minority percentage.

By the late 1990s, however, the focus had shifted to health care fraud, which now accounts for the majority of cases filed by whistleblowers and by the government.

The majority of Finnish socialists, however, were moderate and preferred parliamentary methods, prompting Lenin to label them " reluctant revolutionaries.

" This " reluctance " diminished as the general strike appeared to take effect, and the Workers ' Revolutionary Council voted by a narrow majority to seize power on 16 November ; however, the supreme revolutionary Executive Committee was unable to recruit enough members to carry out its plans for armed uprising, and had to call off the proposed revolution the same day.

Gardening for beauty is likely nearly as old as farming for food, however for most of history for the majority of people there was no real distinction since the need for food and other useful product trumped other concerns.

This Gospel is considered by the majority of academics, including Christians and some Muslims ( such as Abbas el-Akkad ) to be late and pseudepigraphical ; however, some academics suggest that it may contain some remnants of an earlier apocryphal work ( perhaps Gnostic, Ebionite or Diatessaronic ), redacted to bring it more in line with Islamic doctrine.

Eastern Galilee, however, retained a Jewish majority for most of its history.

The unification of the two parties was symbolic of the new friendship of German socialists in defeating their common enemy, however, Communists who made a majority had virtually total control over policy.

Together with the German National People's Party ( DNVP ), however, he was able to form a slim majority government.